GENERAL CABLES.
CRUISE IN A LIFE-BOAT. / BY CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT.’ LONDON, March 4. A. coastguards™an named Hitchens and three other Cornishmen and a wireless .-.operator leave the Thames during the. fiust week in May to circumnavigate the world in an open lifeboat. They hope to cover 38,000 miles in two a-nd•& half yeans. The life-boat has already had. thirty years’ service and 'lia.s. saved ninetyfive lives. - It- is thirty-nine feet long and is fitted with, a. 10-h.p. engine. The crew will subsist entirely on. biscuitsi and prepared foods. After visiting America they will go to New Zealand, Sydney, Melbourne apd Perth, thence South Africa.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 7 March 1925, Page 3
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